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     If you have ever lived in a small town such as Arvin, California, you know the value of advanced planning. With a single hardware store so poorly stocked that you had as good a chance finding what you needed next door at the Sprouse Riese five and dime cent store. When the family went to Bakersfield, twenty miles away, everyone made the most of their trips. My mother would spend the best of a day contacting all of her friends before going and would develop elaborate list and plans with various things to pick up for each of her friends. Grocery shopping was equally a challenge because while Arvin had a Safeway Supermarket the prices of various food items were very high.         In Bakersfield where the grocery markets actually competed against each other they had coupon sales. But this meant taking your food home in cars before air conditioning, when the outside temperature often rose above 108o...
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